Georgia O’Keeffe, “Mother of American Modernism”

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Born on November 15, 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe grew up on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, the second of seven children. As a child, she received art lessons at home, and her abilities were quickly recognized and encouraged by teachers throughout her school years....

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert had the rare experience of living in two centuries, over a lifetime that spanned nearly the entire 20th century. Particularly as a Hispanic New Mexican woman, her place in time helped position her to achieve and experience many seminal...

Eve Ball

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Eve Ball grew up on the plains of Kansas and Texas and moved to the Ruidoso highlands of New Mexico after World War II. She attended college and taught several grades, as well as junior college level courses, in Dodge City, Kansas. Her many travels to New Mexico,...

Esther Martinez, P’oe Tsáwä (Blue Water)

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Esther Martinez was born in Utah in 1912, the year New Mexico became a state. Her father named her P’oe Tsáwä (Blue Water) after his favorite fishing hole. When she was a baby, the family moved to Colorado, where her father, whom she described as a “jack of all...

Estella García and Women of the WPA, Fabric Artists

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Along with lace making, colcha embroidery came to New Mexico with the first Spanish settlements and was an occupation for gentlewomen. Women embroidered cloth for table covers and coverlets or bedspreads in the house or altar cloths in the church. Men were the...

Emma Estrada, Parteras of New Mexico

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Prior to the arrival of the United States Army in 1846, no known doctors are known to have practiced in New Mexico. After that, a combination of vast distances and sparse, rural population in New Mexico contributed to a continued shortage of trained medical...

Dulcelina Salce Curtis

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Dulcelina Salce Curtis was a hard-working visionary who spent her time in wise pursuits—teacher, agriculturalist, farmer, orchardist, and conservationist in flood control and surface water protection. Dulcelina, a lifelong resident of Corrales, gave generously of...

Dr. Annie Dodge Wauneka

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Dr. Annie Dodge Wauneka was a politician and public health activist who worked tirelessly to reconcile differences between Western and Navajo traditions in healthcare, especially in the fight against tuberculosis. The daughter of prominent Navajo leader Henry Chee...

Doña Dolores “Lola” Chávez de Armijo

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

In 1912, New Mexico State Librarian, Lola Chávez de Armijo, filed a gender discrimination lawsuit after the Governor sought to replace her by court order—claiming that she, being a woman, was unqualified to hold office under the constitution and laws of New Mexico....

Chief Justice Pamela B. Minzner

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

One of approximately twenty women in the Harvard law class of five hundred, she and her female classmates found their job search after law school challenging. Law firms were recruiting male graduates but ignoring the women. The female students, well versed in their...